And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers
Law / MosesNow therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawAnd the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
Exodus
LawHe shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God:
Exodus
LawThe Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
Numbers
Law / MosesIt is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
John
GospelsThen she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
Ezra
History / EzraA son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
Genesis
Law / MosesI have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanYet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
John
GospelsThe LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.